Grouping whole albums/CD's (am I missing something here)

My problem is this.
I want to group whole ALBUMS/CD'S by category--MY categories.
Clicking the Genre column to sort does work for "Classical" ( a one-genre group), but in my current tunes, the Genre's are too diverse--and weird. I have a favorite hard rock that is flagged "Dance"--it just won't sort by Genre into the right group.
Is there way to create SUB groups under "Music" where WHOLE ALBUMS can be browsed with the "flow" album art icons: Class, Rap, Pop, etc.--not tied to Genre.
The folders and Playlists only contain tunes, as I see it now. I'm a novice at this, but building a iTune collection fast, and about to move to a new iPod Touch.
I need some order here, to get what I want easily.

Okay, I get dummy of the month award.
I think I've answered my own question-with a little more chutzpah= SMART Playlists, a perfectly programable, tunable list--that keeps on giving (or gathering--"set it and forget it")
So, #1, typical newcomer jerk error--"moving to fast".
I never bothered to figure out what a Smart Playlist was, OR when I read it, I didn't see how it could work for me, sheer disconnect. Infomation overload. "Babe in the woods" syndrome
#2. less egregious error, I didn't pick up everyone of the new features in Verision 7 right off, or press beyond the DEFAULT settings.
I was troubled that I couldn't browse by album art as in MUSIC. Well, that's the Default view in Music.
The default view in Playlist is "plain vanilla" -- just tunes.
So a little INTELLIGENT poking around did the trick.
End of discussion. I think I'm good to go, and more impressed than ever with this brilliant, wizardy, visually gorgeous, supremely helpful "toy" ("tool" to you guys with the green eye shades).
Thanks!

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